"Mohamed Yassin Eltabakh" <meltabak@cs.purdue.edu> writes:
>> What happens if you try "postgres -V" by hand?
> The response is nothing (empty). No version number appears.
Well, that's why initdb is not happy, but the next question is why
linking in libxml2 breaks postgres that thoroughly. No idea on
that one, I'm afraid you'll have to try to get some cygwin experts
involved ...
regards, tom lane